Highly Reusable Software

By activity
Professions, Sciences, Humanities, Business, ...

User Interface
Text-based, GUI, Audio, Video, Keyboards, Mouse, Images,...

Text Strings
Conversions, tests, processing, manipulation,...

Math
Integer, Floating point, Matrix, Statistics, Boolean, ...

Processing
Algorithms, Memory, Process control, Debugging, ...

Stored Data
Data storage, Integrity, Encryption, Compression, ...

Communications
Networks, protocols, Interprocess, Remote, Client Server, ...

Hard World
Timing, Calendar and Clock, Audio, Video, Printer, Controls...

File System
Management, Filtering, File & Directory access, Viewers, ...

Examples of software licenses with certain characteristics

Clicking on the examples link under each symbolic tag will give more details about compatibility, as well as a list of currently cataloged licenses with the same symbolic tag. This provides a way to quickly identify licenses containing particular clauses.

Alternatively,

Load the multi-purpose form
Select the checkboxes for attributes
Submit.

The output will include a list of example licenses for each tag, as well as section which reports the count of matching tags per license.

See Also: Selecting a software license
Next: Create a LIDESC-compatible license description file
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